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Author Featherman, Chris, 1972- author.

Title Discourses of ideology and identity : social media and the Iranian election protests / Chris Featherman
Published New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015

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Series Routledge critical studies in discourse ; 8
Routledge critical studies in discourse ; 8.
Contents Framing discourse on the environment: a critical discourse approach / Richard J. Alexander -- 2 Language and the Market Society: Critical Reflections on Discourse and Dominance / Gerlinde Mautner -- 3 Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust: The Concept of the Body Politic / Andreas Musolff -- 4 Hybrid Voices and Collaborative Change: Contextualising Positive Discourse Analysis / Tom Bartlett. -- Analysing Fascist Discourse: European Fascism in Talk and Text/ Edited by Ruth Wodak and John E. Richardson -- 6 Discourse and Democracy: Critical Analysis of the Language of Government / Michael Farrelly -- 7 Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, Dislocations / Edited by Tommaso M. Milani -- 8 Discourses of Ideology and Identity: Social Media and the Iranian Election Protests / Chris Featherman
Summary In this monograph, Chris Featherman adopts a discourse analytical approach to explore the ways in which social movement ideologies and identities are discursively constructed in new and old media. In the context of his argument, Featherman also considers current debates surrounding the role that technologies play in democracy-building and global activist networks. He engages these critical issues through a case study of the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests, looking at both US legacy media coverage of the protests as well as activists' use of social media. Through qualitative analysis of a corpus of activists' Twitter tweets and Flickr uploads, Featherman argues that activists' social media discourses and protesters' symbolic and tactical borrowing of global English contribute to micronarratives of globalization, while also calling into question master narratives about Iran commonly found in mainstream Western media accounts. This volume makes a timely contribution to discussions regarding the relationship between cyber-rhetoric and democracy, and provides new directions for researchers engaging with the influence of new media on globalized vernaculars of English
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Discourse analysis -- Political aspects
Social media -- Political aspects -- Iran
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Discourse analysis -- Political aspects
Press coverage
Social media -- Political aspects
SUBJECT Iran -- History -- Protests, 2011- -- Press coverage
Subject Iran
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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